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Since getfirebug.com is down from several days, plus there's no mirror available via Google searches for Firebug 1.2 Beta 3, I went ahead with building my own from source. This is the Firebug 1.2 plugin/extension build from it's SVN repository, revision 743. The build is latest as of JUN 13TH, and is, possibly, ahead of beta 3 version of Firebug 1.2. Please remember this is a development build, rather than being a stable one, so it is prone to bugs and might crash your Firefox installation, and with that I take no responsibility of this thing! =D

Install Firebug 1.2 Beta 3.x (SVN Revision 743)

Compatibility: Firefox 1.5 -> Firefox 3 continue reading...

It's beautiful inside! Thanks to FedEx too!

Update: Now that's it's known everywhere, and most of SoC participants have received it, it's quite justified to reveal that it's Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think!

Here's how I went fixing my 3.3GB of Fedora i386/32-bit DVD ISO, downloaded directly(http) from an official mirror, which went kaput. Hash check(SHA1) failed to verify the ISO! Rather than a fresh download, I went fixing the ISO itself.

1. Download your data(ISO, ZIP, etc.) from any source or mirror. Sometimes it's faster to grab than a torrent download, but you may corrupt your big downloads with frequent pauses or crashes, and the checksum fails to verify!
2. Download your favorite Bit Torrent client. Here are some recommendations: µTorrent for Windows and KTorrent for KDE.
3. Search for the exactly same data torrent, and open using the torrent client.
4. Monitor the location of your torrent downloads directory while you start the download. Stop the torrent as soon as the files are created there.
5. Now replace the file in the torrent downloads with the one you downloaded earlier. Make sure the name is intact as the torrent client made it. For example, Fedora-9-i386-DVD.iso.bc! is the format for incomplete BitComet torrent downloads.
6. Now you need to check the data integrity of your torrent. The option is "Check data integrity" in KTorrent, and "Force Re-Check" in uTorrent(µTorrent). It'll take a few seconds to verify your data for corrupt parts and enlist to itself for re-download of them. My check stopped at 99.9% for Fedora-9-i386-DVD.iso.
   
7. When the check is finished, proceed with starting the torrent now. In my case, 0.01% was downloaded again, fixing my ISO!
8. Yay!! Now help others out! And keep seeding.

In whole, you are able to download stuff faster than torrents(sometimes ) via http/ftp sources, and later fix up any errors that download may have using a torrent client! Good luck! continue reading...

• MY PROPOSAL ABSTRACT
• All Accepted applications for Drupal

Was bound to happen

Two years back I created a basic module toggle_www to toggle the "www" part of your Drupal website, taking the user the correct requested page. In other words, redirect users from http://www.example.com/some/deep/page to http://example.com/some/deep/page or vice-versa. However, killes suggested to take it off, because the same functionality could be achieved using some redirect directives in .htaccess. Being new in the developer community at that time, upon a short thought I took the project page off.

However, users using IIS, or whose servers don't allow .htaccess files - just like this blog's host HCoop.net does(they have their own tool Domtool), need a separate solution if they want to manage the above said. So before I revive the toggle_www module for Drupal 6.x, some overview how we redirect using PHP's header() function. This is rather some easy PHP stuff, with some aspects covered. continue reading...

It's one of the Canon's newly launched(Q4 last year) All-in-One/Multifunction Inkjet series targeted towards business consumer. I'm in no way into a business with this one. But the fact that the market in my city didn't have the home consumer targeted models, only pre-orders. Without any research into these.

Fax isn't what I would need daily or even once a month, but didn't feel like compromising for a two grand inferior model. This piece looks big solid brief case carrying all your uber army equipments. At first sight I was left wondering where I would place it, but luckily there's enough room for it! Height is not a lot(~18cm) and is even throughout the body, which makes me easily manage for space. Lots of settings are saved directly on the printer, instead of saving on the computer. Impressed by this because I upgraded from a good 'ol one.

Impressed by the capabilities as well, including copying, scanning, fax and printing of course. I wonder if Canon could include a handset as well, but that makes another reason to always keep it connected to the phone line. This is a brief recall of my views whole evening and now, on this piece doing great job! Maybe in summers I'll post a detailed review, because it'll definitely be helping many in deciding. Currently, I have been unable to find any review of this machine at all.

And yes, the main reason for the purchase was my university project works, and photo prints, besides copying(ਫੋਟੋ-ਸਟੇਟ ), which now I find very handy and useful!

I moved from Compaq IJ600 Printer ~~ ~~, accompanying me since almost 6 and a half years :)

All the specifications are over here. Unboxing pictures ahead. continue reading...

Similar to Konstantin's approach at kkaefer.com, I have setup a language vocabulary for blog stories. Each of the two(English and Punjabi) for the posts in respective language.

Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ in Gurmukhi script) is my mother tongue, spoken by whole of Punjab. But I'll be posting mostly in English for an obvious reason: my target audience; and occasionally in Punjabi for specific development with punlinux and satluj projects(sadly both are currently in rags situation from the information aspect ).

I have collected, and packaged Smileys / Smilies / Emoticons from Tango, Yahoo, Google, and a few other sources(they are not necessarily licensed with GPL). Instructions are pretty much same for Drupal users, extract the package into packs directory inside the Smileys module's folder. If you have any suggestion or a package request, leave a comment, or use the contact form.

Happy Vaisakhi! :)